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Why wouldn't the Mets be willing to eat his full salary to get prospects? It would have the same result as not trading him at all, except this way we would get prospects.

I can't wait until Sandy pulls off his mid-season coup: a clinging-to-health Santana to Toronto to win a championship with Dickey and Reyes... and we get Anthony Gose.

LOL! One can dream.

I actually think he goes to Texas. Texas pretty much missed out on everyone this off season. If Santana is healthy and the Rangers will need pitching there is a perfect match right there. We also might not have to take on as much salary either.

-Ruben Tejada's progression
-Ike Davis (can he become the consistent clean up hitter we need?)
-Matt Harvey's first full season
-Wheeler and TDA on the way
-Captain Kirk and Duda- can they contribute to this OF?
-How Santana fairs this season

Wheeler and TDA debuts
How Harvey pitches over a full season..
Seeing how these kids in the bullpen work out..
Ike's continued progression (hopefully)...

And the thing that makes me happiest of all.

Not seeing Bay, Thole, Nickeas, and Torres in a Mets uniform

Not to be greedy, but I actually wish they had hung on to Thole somehow. Obviously that was an important piece for Toronto as they were looking for a guy who could catch the knuckleball. But it would have been nice to keep him. He wouldn't be bad as a backup, and he would compliment D'Arnaud off the bench since he's a lefty. What is our depth chart at catcher for 2014? D'Arnaud then ??? then ??? then probably Recker.

Not to be greedy, but I actually wish they had hung on to Thole somehow. Obviously that was an important piece for Toronto as they were looking for a guy who could catch the knuckleball. But it would have been nice to keep him. He wouldn't be bad as a backup, and he would compliment D'Arnaud off the bench since he's a lefty. What is our depth chart at catcher for 2014? D'Arnaud then ??? then ??? then probably Recker.

I am not a Thole fan by any means so i might not be the most objective to answer this question but i will try.

I understand your point from a depth perspective but catchers of Thole's ilk can be acquired anywhere. He was a liability defensively and what he was brought up here to do he couldn't (hit).

Honestly i would like to have a backup that has a better resume than Tholes because of the fact that D'Arnaud is unproven at the major league level.

Thole's fWAR was 0.1 which was basically meant he had the value of a AAA player.

I think that people will start coming back to the stadium this season. People understand the direction, and no matter who you talk to, everyone is going to be excited the days when Wheeler and d'Arnaud come up and take over in Citifield